"I couldn't get her fever down. She started vomiting. She'd say her head hurt really bad. She cried, and she would just look at me and her eyes would just kind of roll," Hardig said, according to TVH 11.

Kali is currently in a medically-induced coma.

"They call her stable for the moment, just got to ride out all the inflammation, all the side effects that the meningitis caused," Hardig said.

Before falling ill, Kali swam in an undisclosed lake. The owner of Willow Springs water park in Little Rock told TVH 11 water testing had been conducted, but the results had not yet been returned.

Hardig knows what it's like to fight a deadly disease, she beat breast cancer in 2005.

"I tell [Kali] to fight like mom all the time when I get up close to her," Hardig said. "On Friday, I was told Kali wasn't going to make it through Sunday and look."

The parasite responsible for the illness is called Naegleria fowleri and is"commonly referred to as the brain-eating amoeba," the CDC reported.